Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!

Fedora Linux 33 will reach end of life on Tuesday 30 November. Nominations for the F35 elections cycle are now open.

The F35 retrospective survey is open through 4 December.

I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in -meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.

Announcements

CfPs

ConferenceLocationDateCfP
FOSDEM devroomsonline5–6 Febcloses 15 Nov
SCaLEPasadena, CA, US5–8 Marcloses 30 Nov

Help wanted

Upcoming test days

The call for F36 Test Days is open.

Prioritized Bugs

See the Prioritized Bugs documentation for information on the process, including how to nominate bugs.

Upcoming meetings

Releases

Releaseopen bugs
F334662
F345536
F351680
F36 (rawhide)6553

Fedora Linux 35

Elections

  • 2021-11-17Nomination period ends
  • 2021-11-17 — Interview period begins
  • 2021-11-24 — Interview period ends
  • 2021-11-26 — Voting begins
  • 2021-12-09 — Voting ends
  • 2021-12-10 — Results announced

Fedora Linux 36

Changes

The table below lists proposed Changes. See the ChangeSet page or Bugzilla for information on approved Changes.

ProposalTypeStatus
OpenLDAP 2.5System-WideApproved
Drop NIS(+) support from PAMSystem-WideApproved
Retire the NIS(+) user-space utility programsSystem-WideApproved
Package information on ELF objectsSystem-WideFESCo #2687
Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layerSystem-WideApproved
Rubygem Cucumber 7.1.0Self-ContainedApproved
Stratis 3.0.0Self-ContainedFESCo #2691
Remove .la files from buildrootSelf-ContainedFESCo #2693
java-17-openjdk as system JDK in F36System-WideFESCo #2694
ELN-ExtrasSystem-WideAnnounced

Contributing

Have something you want included? You can file an issue or submit a pull request in the fedora-pgm/pgm_communication repo.